An Article within a Blog is a Void filled by Language

       I worry a lot.  You know people like me, and have probably tried to talk them out of their worries.  It usually doesn't work.  Most often you might compare this exercise as trying to tell a stressed out person to just relax.  This just doesn't work.

     In my case, worry carries with it stress, muscle spasms, increasing pain, all of which drive a circle that just increases my worry, because at that point I'm in pain, too.

     I'll point out that this tendency made my a highly productive worker.  As an Alpha-Drone, I used to do anything to alleviate my worries, which usually meant I'd work until I'd solve a problem.  The depth of my worry then was a the opposite value of the magnitude of the "project" I'd create to ease my worry.  So the more stressed I was, the more productive I was as well.  If I was highly stressed I'd be highly productive and since my compensation was a direct reflection of my productivity, I was highly profitable to the firm, and highly compensated.  But, as my wife pointed out to me last night, I was also deeply unhappy.

     Subtracting work, or my career, from Me, then left me with a deep void as I became disabled.  If you've read any of the stuff I've written on this blog about myself, you can see, I could anyway, that I was a busted machine.  My greatest abilities no longer had any outlet.

     I filled this void with language.  I began to write.  me writing about myself yielded 2 outcomes.  First, I enjoyed it, and was therapeutic.  It knocked down the stress.  Second, I began to realize that bloggers fell into to groups:  Those who just like to write, and those who use writing as a technique to solve a problem.

     I morphed into the latter.  A while back I wrote a piece "Colin, No One Reads My Blog," which was a turning point for me.  It seems that there is a large group, just like me, who like to write, but also want to win a prize--more readers, higher ratings, etc.

     What also seems obvious to me is that most of this group of bloggers haven't many good ideas for driving towards their goal.  The pro's do; they make a boatload of money on the blogger crowd, who have set themselves up to be used.  Many, many bloggers are far to worried about things that can't really hurt them, like who's stealing my material.  Shit, you should count yourself lucky if something you wrote is so good that someone would steal it.  Instead, "writing bloggers" should stick to their knitting and write; business bloggers might ask themselves one question:  How many relationships have you built, from scratch, with other bloggers?  What I didn't ask, and really don't care about the answer is: "How many networking sites have you joined?"  The people who run those sites provide a valuable service to you, but the also make plenty of dough on the lazy business blogger.

     A smart business blogger would have created this site long before it hit the web.  Dear Arkansas dude;  I know personally, by email, of course, 35 bloggers--I'll introduce them to you if you introduce yours 35 to me to me.  No, I'll ask them to write about your site, if you make the same promise that your contacts will write about mine.

     I created a site with Idaho Bob, who brought his blogger friends.  He's got 39.  Alaska Anne has fifty.  What if the remaining 32 have forty each, and I introduced them all to one another?  What If, miracle of miracles, we all agreed to share?  Would my Technorati rating, "blogs that link to my site" increase from 19 to 190, overnight?

     No, the links to me would be much higher, and not just for me, but for everyone.  Readership, which lags links, will also do the same thing, FOR EVERY PARTICIPANT.

      My new site, under construction, will be selective.  Write back and you're in.  Hell, I want to share and steal what you'd like.   The new site will be Plus Ultra, beta.

     Sharing is the key to making your blogging job a career.  Write to me or Anne here or on our private emails.

     This will start big or small.  All early participants will recieve site and possibly log in info.  Best, Colin

Comments

[dave]

Congratulations on your new site. Sounds very interesting and I'd like to know more.

Keep up the good work.

I have a new site too about focusing on the present, putting the past truly behind and creating the future out of the present---and it has as its theme one of nature's majesties: waterfalls.

More on it later.

dave